Two East Coast skiers riding at Aspen crashed into each other near the end of the day yesterday. One suffered minor injuries. The other traumatic head injuries that left her unconscious, and she later died at the hospital. Both were wearing helmets.  Authorities are still investigating the accident. It falls just a week after snowmobiler [ more... ]

I would find tremendous joy in seeing the city of Aspen overrun with hungry bears this summer. An unseasonably warm spring has caused the region’s bears to come out of their hibernation early, and a drought has made food scarce in the backcountry. The city has already setup traps to try to stop two nuisance [ more... ]

Where’s the beef? About 29 cows wandered off a ranch near Aspen and many ended up dying of exposure near popular hot springs in the Maroon Bells-Snowmass Wilderness. “Hungry bears, human bathers and thawing cow carcasses aren’t a good mix, according to agency officials.” Indeed. They originally though only about six cows would be in [ more... ]

Thirty-four years after the Aspen Mountain Rescue saved her, a pilot and five others from a crash site where her father died, an Oklahoma businesswoman gave the group a check to build a new headquarters and training facility on Main Street. Though the sum was not disclosed, it’s rumored to be over $1 million. The [ more... ]

Aspen is offering rich people the chance to buy a $25,000 season pass that will put them on the first chair up the mountain any day they choose to ski. It would be a lot easier to hate them if they weren’t giving the proceeds from the ski pass sale to support public school and [ more... ]

A veteran instructor at Aspen wandered through the resorts hotels stuffing fliers under doors, sticking them on cars, and handing them out at the base of the hill: Greed?” A following line said “Private Lesson: $625. Labor payment to least paid instructors: $69. Fair?” The rabblerousing instructor earns at a much higher pay grade, but [ more... ]